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Whales to the Rescue: How Whales Help Engineer the Planet

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Whales to the Rescue: How Whales Help Engineer the Planet - Mason, Adrienne
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It's not just humans combating global warming. Meet one of Earth's "ecosystem engineers"! In this fascinating and unique book, a marine biologist reveals how whales are "ecosystem engineers" --- animals that create, modify or maintain a habitat or ecosystem. Whales do this by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. They store loads of carbon in their bodies for decades, even centuries; when they die, they sink to the ocean floor, taking their carbon with them. More carbon in the ocean means less carbon in ...

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Whales to the Rescue: How Whales Help Engineer the Planet 2022, Kids Can Press

ISBN-13: 9781525305375

Hardcover